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Harvey J. Alter, a Common card
Harvey James Alter is an American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate, who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Harvey J. Alter quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Harvey J. Alter card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
In the mid-____s, Alter and his research team demonstrated that most post-transfusion hepatitis cases were not due to hepatitis A or hepatitis B viruses.
Answer
1970s. In the mid-1970s, Alter and his research team demonstrated that most post-transfusion hepatitis cases were not due to hepatitis A or hepatitis B viruses. From the Harvey J. Alter article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nicolas Kiefer. Nicolas Kiefer 73 · Sarah Parcak 65 · Harvey J. Alter 62 · Hampton Hill 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Alter is the former chief of the infectious disease section and the associate director for research of the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
- In the mid-1970s, Alter and his research team demonstrated that most post-transfusion hepatitis cases were not due to hepatitis A or hepatitis B viruses.
- Working independently, Alter and Edward Tabor, a scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, proved through transmission studies in chimpanzees that a new form of hepatitis, initially called "non-A, non-B hepatitis" caused the infections, and that the causative agent was probably a virus.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Harvey J. Alter article was read about 9,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
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- Neue Rheinische ZeitungCommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 53
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Text : Wikipedia, Harvey J. Alter (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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